Detachable folding screen



' May 8, 1928. 1,668,849

J. F. LANDT DETACHABLE FOLDING SCREEN Filed Feb. 10, 1927 [N YEN TOR.

B Q'a/rvol t BY Q ZZ LJKW- 0%TTORNEY Patented May 8, 1928.

UNITED STATES JOHN F. TIANDT, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

.DETACHAIBLE FOLDING SCREEN.

Application filed February 10, 1927. aerial No. 167,160.;

My invention relates to a Window screen particularly adaptable for the Windows of motor vehicles, and the object is to provide a simple, efficient and collapsible screen which is readily placed in the window opening of a car whether the glass is up or not and which may be detached from said opening, folded up in a minimum unobstructive place.

In the accompanying drawing;

Fig. 1 is an inside elevation of the windshield and adjacent parts of an automobile and showing my improved screen in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, a portion of an automobile with two of my devices in operative position on its two windows.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged top view of one of my screens and some adjacent window frame parts in section, about as on line 3-8 in Fig. 4 is a vertical section near the center of the screen, about as at line 4-4 in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 5 designates a car body having window openings, 6, either in the body or the doors, 7 and 8 in Figs. 1, 3 and nates the windshield frame suitabl hinged as at 8 (Fig. 4), 10 represents the g ass pane 0 in any of the openings (may be fixed in a frame 11, slidnble vertically into or out of any of the openings but hinged in the wind shield), 12 is the instrument board of an automobile just below the windshield forward of the drivers seat.

My device consists of a quadrangular metal frame 13, of a size to fill any car door or window opening and is divided preferably in two sections by a vertical rod mem ber 14 the upper and lower ends of which are pivotallysecured at 14 to the upper and lower screen frame members. The frame members 13 are preferably made of fiat bar metal folded over to frictionally clamp the 5 edges of the screen 15. 16 are shallow U or (channel shaped clips fixed on the outer faces of the vertical frame members 13, and opening outwardly to engage the adjacent vertical window frame members 8 of the car, as best shown in Fig. 3. 1

In Fig. 4, 8 is a. recess in the window opening internally of which the opening 1s reduced and forms a shoulder 8 These shoulders are engaged externally by L- shaped clips 17 fixed on the horizontal memhere 13 of my device and which have each 4 desigits short arm 17", extending outwardly. These clips 17-17--, hold the horizontal edges of the screen in fixed position simultaneously as the clips 16 engage the vertical window frames.

Inplacing one of my screens in a window opening it is spread out almost its full width so that the end clips 16 are aligned to be close to opposite the vertical window frame members. The lower clips 17 are then hooked over the lower horizontal edge or shoulder 8 of the window frame as the upper edge of the screen is pressed toward the window opening and sprung downwardly enough to get=the upper hook arms 17 to engage the upper and outwardly exposed face of the shoulder 8 This springing actlon on the screen is facilitated by pulling inwardly on the center part of the hinge bar 14 sis the screen is straightened out to a vertica of the window and in a plane parallel thereto. The screen is also readily removable by first bending bar 14 inwardly to shorten the distance between the top and bottom frame members 13, so that clips 17 can first be disengaged and the screen frame subsequently pulled inwardly by gradually swinging the ends of the screen sections toward each other. Then the screen is released and can be folded up and placed under a seat or any other convenient place in the car. It is obvious that these types of screens serve a very useful purpose for car owners who park their cars in suburban districts, at lakes and camps, to keep insects out of a car and the screens also serve as a windbreak.

It will be understood that a single piece of screen only is used and arranged, in front of the bar 14, approximately on a common plane with thecenters of the hinges 14 Wire screen or cloth screen may be used.

he screen sections, are of course, folded toward each'other in a direction away from the pivot rod 14.

I claim:

1. A screen of the class described comprising a quadrangular frame divided in two parts hingedly joined on a hinge bar, a single continuous screen retained in said frame and passing in front of said hinge bar, outwardly directed clips fixed on the four outer sides of said frame and adapted to frictionally engage the corresponding window frame members to hold the screen in fixed vertical position, in which said hinge bar is plane and assumes its position inwardly a spring bar normally straight but ada b ed to be sprung to reduce the distance etween the upper and lower screen frame members for the purpose described.

2. A screen of the class described comprising a1 quadrangular frame divided in two parts hingedly joined on a hinge bar, a single continuous screen retained in said frame and passing in front of said hinge bar, outwardly directed clips fixed on the four outer sides of said frame and ada ted to frictionally engage the correspon ing window frame members hold the screen in fixed vertical position, said clips on the horizontal bars being of L-shape and the clips on the vertical bars of a shallow U- shape, the former to engage horizontal window frame members at the outer edge and JOHN F. LANDT. 

